China Report - January 2023
English | 68 pages | PDF | 64.6 MB

Weichung Cheng, "War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas (1622-1683)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9004250662 | PDF | pages: 389 | 4.9 mb
The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Cheng-kungalias Coxingaand his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in Chinas southeastern coastal provinces that competed fiercely, if only briefly, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants during the early stages of globalization.

A History of Civil Law in Early China: Cases, Statutes, Concepts and Beyond (Legal History Library, 60) by Zhaoyang Zhang and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English | July 14, 2022 | ISBN: 9004393730 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Through the careful examination of cases, statutes and terminology preserved in both excavated and transmitted materials, this book argues that a civil law with distinctive Chinese characteristics emerged during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220).

Trafficking dаta: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781696609364 | 2022 | 10 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Aynne Kokas
Narrator: Hannah Choi
From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. In Trafficking Data, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens, putting US national security at risk. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the US and China and a large trove of corporate and policy documents, Trafficking Data explains how China is fast becoming the global leader in internet governance and policy, and thus of the data that defines our public and private lives.

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMJ26J2Z | 2022 | 11 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 341 MB
Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Narrator: Catherine Ho
How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate. Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"-harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms. Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.

China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power: Theory Practice and Implications (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMHPCXQN | 2022 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 267 MB
Author: Michael A. McDevitt
Narrator: Ian Putnam
Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first explores the strategic rationale behind Xi's two objectives.

Japanese Cultural Policy Toward China, 1918-1931: A Comparative Perspective By See Heng Teow
1999 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 0674472578 | PDF | 132 MB
Most existing scholarship on Japan's cultural policy toward modern China reflects the paradigm of cultural imperialism. In contrast, this study demonstrates that Japan--while motivated by pragmatic interests, international cultural rivalries, ethnocentrism, moralism, and idealism--was mindful of Chinese opinion and sought the cooperation of the Chinese government. Japanese policy stressed cultural communication and inclusiveness rather than cultural domination and exclusiveness and was part of Japan's search for an East Asian cultural order led by Japan. China, however, was not a passive recipient and actively sought to redirect this policy to serve its national interests and aspirations. The author argues that it is time to move away from the framework of cultural imperialism toward one that recognizes the importance of cultural autonomy, internationalism, and transculturation.

40 Years of Reform and Opening-up : China's Model and Experience
by Chaoyang Wang
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811662134 | 153 Pages | True ePUB | 2.62 MB

Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics By Louisa Schein
2000 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0822324083 | PDF | 27 MB
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation's fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China's postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with the West. She offers eloquently argued interventions into debates over nationalism, ethnic subjectivity, and the ethnography of the state.Posing questions about gender, cultural politics, and identity, Schein examines how non-Miao people help to create Miao ethnicity by depicting them as both feminized keepers of Chinese tradition and as exotic others against which dominant groups can assert their own modernity. In representing and consuming aspects of their own culture, Miao distance themselves from the idea that they are less than modern. Thus, Schein explains, everyday practices, village rituals, journalistic encounters, and tourism events are not just moments of cultural production but also performances of modernity through which others are made primitive. Schein finds that these moments frequently highlight internal differences among the Miao and demonstrates how not only minorities but more generally peasants and women offer a valuable key to understanding China as it renegotiates its place in the global order.Based on extensive, multisite fieldwork, this book will interest scholars of Asian studies, anthropology, gender studies, postcolonialism, ethnic studies, and cultural studies.

Wang Gungwu, Ng Chin-Keong, "Maritime China in Transition 1750-1850"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 3447050365 | PDF | pages: 412 | 154.3 mb
This collection contains an introductory essay by Wang Gungwu and 22 studies originally read to an international conference organized by the Department of History, National University of Singapore. The contributions investigate diverse aspects of coastal Chinas commercial, demographic and other ties with the Nanyang region and other maritime areas, such as Japan, mainly in the period circa 1750-1850. This includes themes related to the microlevel of local changes, such as Chinese migration to Taiwan and various Southeast Asian destinations, as well as broader approaches to regional, institutional and other trends, combining philological and theoretical knowledge. In most cases both Asian and colonial sources were used to illustrate the dynamics of Chinas maritime orientation under the Qing, the growth of its overseas communities, and the impact of Chinese traders and sojourners on Europes outposts in the Malay world and around the South China Sea.